PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 12, 6 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

President Taft is. ill with gout and a sprained ankle, sustained while playing golf- „ The Yon. Archdeacon Evans, or New Plymouth, will preach at the U a.m. service at Holy Trinity Church on Sunday. The death occurred at Bulawayo, South Africa, on Monday, of . * r George H. Moore, formerly of ! alnatua.

Mr J. W. Matthews, late manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Cisborne, passed away at his residence, Harsliold street, Auckland, on luesday. Mr W. Thomas, M.A., headmaster of the Waimataitai School (Timani), has been appointed rector of the 1 imam High School. The marriage was celebrated at St. Paul’s, Auckland, on Tuesday, oi Mrs Koster, of New Plymouth, and M r \V. Yj. Warner, of the staff of L. D. Aathan and Co,

The Rev. B. Hutson, for some tune minister in charge of the Stratfoid Presbyterian Church, was on a short visit to Stratford yesterday, leaving again this morning. Wotd has been received from Queensland of the death of Mrs Grimstone, the mother of Mrs Thomas Redwood, of Blenheim, Mrs Charles Redwood, Toowoomba, and Mrs Waddy, Palmerston North: She was in her 92nd year. 1 Ali'ck Sangster, a nine-year-old son of Mr. Geo. Sangster, while kicking a football in the Stanley Road school play ground, collided with another youngster, and fell with such force that lie broke his leg. Dr. Steven attended to the injured child, and found the break to be a clean one. The boy is now progressing favourably.

Dr. Cameron returned from his visit to Wellington on Tuesday night, bringing with Kim h handsome Austin mot-dr-car, Which he drove through from Palmerston Nor th. The roads iu places were anything but good, but the new car behavel splendidly and made fairly good time. Sub-Inspector Fouhy, who has been promoted from Ashhurst to Dunedin, was one of the 1950 Armed Constaouiary and Volunteers who marched on Parihaka, the Maori stronguoid, on November 5, 1881. This was the occasion on which the Hon. John Bryce rode his celebrated white horse at too head of the contingent, while the Hon. Mr Rolioston followed on foot. It was also the occasion on which the Armed Constabulary arrested the Maori prophets, To Whiti and I'ohu, a murderer named Tiroki, who was afterwards executed at Now Plymouth, and others. Following this, word reached the authorities or serious trouble at Te Kuiti, and Sub-In-spector Fouhy was one of a contingent despatched to the seat of trouble. Shortly afterwards he was transferred to the police force in Wellington. In almost every society paper that one may take up there will be an account of a golden wedding, but it is an almost, if not quite, unique occurrence for three brothers to Jive with their wives long enough for all to be able to celebrate that event. In the year 1859, Mr Charles J. Elwin, then a surgeon in London, was married, and in 1909 he duly celebrated his golden anniversary, having lived in London all his life. In 1861, Mr James J. Elwin, then the master of the Clive School, in Hawke’s Bay, was married in Christchurch, and in 1911 celebrated the golden event in Taranaki. In 1362, Mr William J. Elwin, then a settler in Hawke’s Bay, married, and last month’he, being the third brother, celebrated his golden wedding at Turiroa. These three golden weddings in one family are said to bo sufficiently unique to cause comment in the Old Country.